Reality is a hard master...we now cannot ignore the fact that America is now bankrupt, it can never pay, will never pay, its debts, and the minute that the rest of the world awakes to the fact we deliberately bankrupted ourselves to destroy the FDR safety net, investors will stay away and chaos will rule the streets.

So just admit that all religions, especially old ones from centuries past, are just creations from the human brains of fellow humans who have no more idea what is going on than the rest of us. There is no god, though I define god as spirit, that which is generated by a common people on a common journey.
That truth means that democratic socialism is in truth...what religion at its core is about, when one filters out the BS that comes from power hungry priests and politicians.

When all is said and done, Trump and Putin are of the same cloth, they see themselves as the boss, and the rest either bend a knee, or get bent.

Trump tends to try to place both sides against each other, to make himself look like a statesman..but in the end he is devoid of ideas since at his core, he is as fascist as Netanyahu and Putin ever were.

Hate is having its day, as it did when the racist South attacked and killed so many of the North so that a few slave holders could be rich at the expense of those with black skins. Trump would be happy as ---- of he can spark another super violent Civil War...

That door swings both ways.

Well, there is a reason these times are utterly empty when it comes to those of the right who are devoted to service to the Constitution and to the American people, all of us, even the very poor and powerless at the bottom of the economic pyramid, and that reason is that our President is as darkly corrupted as any political leader in American history. The Republican Party members have to support the hiding of the Epstein files, or else face primaries up the ying yang.

If Russia, Iran's ally, smuggled five nuclear devices into Iran...
Put yourself in Iran's place, it is faced by an implacable enemy, Israel, which introduced nuclear weapons of mass destruction into the Middle East, and has at least 200 such weapons aimed at Iran.
You said you didn't want nuclear weapons, and would allow inspectors, but the US tore up that agreement just so Netanyahu could bomb your country and kill your military and scientific leaders.
Would you trust Trump even a tiny Itty bit? Or Netanyahu?

ahhh...I must take a few minutes to think upon my atheism, and the fact that I was educated rightly, including the part of my constitution that allows me to be free from other people's religions.

God is a symbol, like Santa Claus, and as such is fine. As an atheist I understand that behind that symbol is a human brain, nothing more and nothing less. So of course fellow humans will hold themselves to high standards that are often violated. Too bad we could assembly under a flag of social unity and love, but humans are led by the rich who are terrified that we, the people will demand safety and leaders who care.
We live in a time of corruption and degradation, where our unity is being attacked and destroyed, so the forces of fascism can take over. Fascism, defined by me, is the permanent rule of a few oligarchs over the many, using fear, hate, and intimidation.
Watching Trump mouth the words of Christianity, including god and Christ and fellowship...makes one feel like vomiting, even this atheist. .

Our American style public education for all children is our greatest feat, our greatest invention, and for Trump to attack that is to see, in real time, antiAmerican fools at work.

To be positive for a millisecond, one of the lessons to be learned here is that citizens' united has to be overturned, no one should be able to influence an election to the degree that Musk put his billions on the scales for Trump.
You don't let the defense team pay off jurors...you shouldn't let the billionaires screw up our electoral process.

Fascism has its tools, and she is clearly at the top of the list. Fascism hates even the concept of the loyal opposition, but our Constitution allows for one person, one vote democracy...and so she is for the overturning of free and fair elections...

Hey, if w could do it...
The Republican Party electorate have proven they will vote for anyone who elevates hate and bigotry and misogyny to the heights.

Trump's voters don't care about facts, they want violence and chaos and conflict, which is entertaining to them.

Splitting the vote, letting the Republican Party win out of spite?

Some Trumpian cruelty has to be about their stupidity, they just don't understand science. Who can be about being forewarned about hurricanes and other weather dangers?

The Trump fascist empire does not believe in the concept of the "loyal opposition" but in truth a strong democracy is not possible without at least one strong oppositional party. Yes, we are struggling as Russia struggled as Putin killed and destroyed his way to unimaginable power and wealth. Just remember, when Putin came to power it was the war veterans and pensioners who stood on street corners and begged, as Putin didn't care to continue pension and social security benefits for the old and the poor.

Hey, we live in a country, a culture, that ignores human caused global warming, our greatest enemy, so that the rich oil barons don't have to sweat. The rest of us sweat plenty for them.

All Ai should come labeled as such. Should be the law.

Just review our attempts at regime change in Iran...look at how we replaced a democratically elected leader with the murderous dictator, the Shah of Iran. And then he was tossed out by the people and they were left with theocratic government.

I mourn the slow decline of our democracy and the display of hate for our constitution by the Trump gang.

Death of print media= decline if not death of our democracy.

All I can say is that the midterms cannot come soon enough...if after this debacle of an administration the people still vote Republican, well, we deserve the sorrow and suffering for electing a fascist to run our democracy.